NLS_LANG is a client side environment variable used to define language, territory and character set properties and to specify the locale behavior.
Questions tagged [nls-lang]
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ORA-12705: Cannot access NLS data files or invalid environment specified Oracle V 12.2.0.7 Windows 10
I am trying to login into sqlplus at the windows command prompt and get the ORA-12705 error.
I have tried setting the NLS_LANG variable to a couple of times (as shown below) with no success.
set NLS_LANG=american_america.US8PC437
set…

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SSRS 2012 to SSRS 2016 causing reports to show different NLS parameters (Oracle 12c (12.1.0.2.0) )
We've recently updated SSRS to 2016 from 2012 - once we updated the server and installed the ODAC we noticed the NLS settings change for reports (for example if we run SELECT * FROM V$NLS_PARAMETERS locally the NLS settings default to UK however…

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Oracle NLS_TERRITORY overrides NLS_DATE_FORMAT
When in PHP application I specify
ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS';
ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE = 'RUSSIAN';
the output data format is as expected 2020-01-31 21:21:47
But when I add
ALTER SESSION SET…

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Ö and other special characters not getting saved correctly in the client data base
When I execute the code at my end, the characters get saved correctly. But when the same code with the same data is executed at client side, the characters change when they are written to the database and that causes issues when they are displayed…

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Oracle Report generating in Greek language
After the migration Oracle application from Windows(on premise) to Unix(cloud), reports are generated in Greek language. Please help us to generate it in English or French.
Application Server : WebLogic
Oracle version : 12.1.0.2.0
We have made…

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NLS_CHARACTERSET in nls_session_parameters returns None
An application I'm using with Oracle seems to be having issues with characters, and I ran the queries below to check on the CHARACTERSET.
SELECT * FROM nls_session_parameters WHERE PARAMETER='NLS_CHARACTERSET';
SELECT * FROM nls_database_parameters…

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Oracle NLS_LANG set properly(WE8ISO8859P1) but sessions starts in US7ASCII
On Linux Open SuSE
I have my env variable set properly, meaning NLS_LANG is set to WE8ISO8859P1, and it is all started and exported in ~/.bashrc
However when the system starts and connects to Oracle the session always starts as US7ASCII
What am I…

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How to read different national languages(NLS) into python?
I'm trying to read data from a Teradata table into python 3.6 and then insert that data into Oracle. It is basically an extract and load process as I'm not transforming the data. This Teradata table has columns where there are characters in many…

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ORA-12705 NLS_LANG error when deploying Oracle as database for WSO2 APIM
I'm facing an issue when setting WSO2 APIM databases with Oracle.
When I launch the WSO2 APIM server, I get the fllowing error :
ORA-12705: Cannot access NLS data files or invalid environment specified
I don't know how to solve this.
My…

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change charset utf8 in oracle
I have problem with transform data in kazakh language from one db oracle to other oracle. Source database has AL32UTF8 NLS_CHARACTERSET (according to v$nls_parameters), target has CL8MSWIN1251
how to solve this?
I inserted raw with informatica

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Set the NLS_LANG
We have a database with AL32UTF8 as character set. Our application supports EN, FR, DE and JP languages. In Each release we insert new labels into the table managing the translations. what the NLS_LANG of the client should be, to ensure that french…

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How fix ORA-00604 and ORA-12705 during sql-maven-plugin execution?
I am trying to drop tablespace in oracle via maven plugin. Here is the configuration:
org.codehaus.mojo
sql-maven-plugin
1.5
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Changing environment variables from SAS
when I connect to an Oracle database, some symbols are not
displayed properly. In Oracle I would change the nls_language parameter for
the session using:
alter session set nls_language and alter session set nls_territory
But how can I change…

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Running legacy OCI app under Windows Server 2012 R2 results in crash
I have an application which uses the OCI 7 API. This application is successfully deployed on a variety of configurations like
WS2003/Oracle9 and WS2008 R2/Oracle12 (r1). I am now trying to deploy the app on WS2012 R2 but I am facing a frustrating…

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How do I change the NLS_CHARACTERSET setting on Windows 7 for Oracle 11g ODBC client
I'm trying to retrieve data from an Oracle database into MS Access or Excel on to a Windows 7 PC. The data includes characters such as degree and diameter symbols. These are not displayed correctly on the PC. I can see that the data is stored…

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